by Albert W. Alschuler
University of Chicago Press, 2000
Cloth: 978-0-226-01520-0 | Paper: 978-0-226-01521-7
Library of Congress Classification KF8745.H6A66 2000
Dewey Decimal Classification 347.732634

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
In recent decades, Oliver Wendell Holmes has been praised as "the only great American legal thinker" and "the most illustrious figure in the history of American law." But in Albert Alschuler's critique of both Justice Holmes and contemporary legal scholarship, a darker portrait is painted—that of a man who, among other things, espoused Social Darwinism, favored eugenics, and, as he himself acknowledged, came "devilish near to believing that might makes right."

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